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ISSNll1007-0214ll12/17llpp325-328
Volume 15, Number 3, June 2010
State Key Laboratory of Control and Simulation of Power Systems and Generation Equipment
Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Abstract: The amplitude of switching overvoltages is a key factor for designing the insulation of UHV
equipment. The effect of different arresters needs to be studied, since installing arresters is an important way
to suppress switching overvoltages in UHV transmission lines. Switching overvoltages on the 1000 kV
Huainan-Huxi double-circuit transmission line were simulated for different operating modes and different ar-
rester designs using the electromagnetic transient program PSCAD/EMTDC. With parallel resistors, the
switching overvoltages are less than 1.70 p.u. (1.0 p.u.=1100 2 / 3 kV). If the arrestors are better, the
switching overvoltages can be reduced even lower to 1.55 p.u. Without parallel resistors, the arresters can
reduce three-phase energizing overvoltages to 1.70 p.u, while the single-phase reclosing overvoltages still
exceed the limit. The results show that the parallel resistors cannot be eliminated if the arresters are only in-
stalled at each end of the transmission line. Also, better quality arresters significantly lower the switching
overvoltages.
Huainan-Wannan-Zhebei-Huxi double-circuit trans- working conditions for the double-circuit mode and the
mission line. The total length of the line is 642.5 km, single-circuit mode.
in which the Huainan-Wannan (HW line) line is 326.5 The rated voltage of the surge arresters used in this
km, the Wannan-Zhebei line (WZ line) is 151 km, and project is 828 kV. The arrester design parameters are
the Zhebei-Huxi line (ZH line) is 165 km. This study listed in Table 1.
focuses on the switching overvoltages for different
Table 1 UHV arrester design parameters
Rated voltage Continuous running voltage Voltage with switching current (kV) Voltage with lighting current (kV)
(kV) (kV) I = 1 kA I = 2 kA I = 10 kA I = 20 kA
828 636 1430 1460 1553 1620
simulations concentrate on the HW line.
1.2 Calculation conditions
Table 2 Switching overvoltaged on different lines
The calculations are based on: (1) Double-circuit and Parallel Switching overvoltage (p.u.)
Type of overvoltage
single-circuit operating modes; (2) Circuit breakers resistors HW line WZ line ZH line
with and without parallel resistors; (3) The variation of Three-phase energizing 1.59 1.25 1.18
Yes
the phase closing time is less than 5 ms; (4) Parallel Single-phase reclosing 1.30 1.25 1.15
resistor is 500 with the bypassing time of 8 ms; (5) Three-phase energizing 1.74 1.63 1.59
No
Reclosing time delay is 0.8 s; and (6) Bus voltage is Single-phase reclosing 1.80 1.63 1.64
1080-1100 kV, 1.0 p.u.=1100 2 / 3 kV.
1.4 Overvoltages for different operating modes
1.3 Overvoltages on different sections
The three operating modes for UHV lines are dou-
The 98% probability switching overvoltages on each ble-circuit, one-circuit ungrounded, and one-circuit
section of the UHV line are listed in Table 2. grounded. The 98% probability switching overvoltages
The results in Table 2 indicate that without parallel for different operating modes are listed in Table 3.
resistors, the most severe switching overvoltage is 1.80 The results in Table 3 demonstrate that the most se-
p.u, which exceeds the limit (1.70 p.u). With parallel vere overvoltage is 1.64 p.u. Among these three oper-
resistors, the overvoltages can be reduced to less than ating modes, the overvoltages for the one-circuit un-
1.59 p.u. Therefore, the parallel resistor is an effective grounded mode are higher than for the other two
way to reduce the switching overvoltages. Since the modes. Since double-circuit is the most common mode,
HW line is much longer than the other lines, the both double-circuit and one-circuit ungrounded are
switching overvoltages are larger. Thus the following considered below.
Table 3 Switching overvoltages for different operation modes
Switching overvoltage (p.u.)
Line Type of overvoltage
Double-circuits One-circuit ungrounded One-circuit grounded
Three-phase energizing 1.59 1.64 1.64
HW
Single-phase reclosing 1.30 1.43 1.37
Three-phase energizing 1.25 1.25 1.25
WZ
Single-phase reclosing 1.25 1.18 1.16
Three-phase energizing 1.18 1.24 1.24
ZH
Single-phase reclosing 1.15 1.12 1.18
strongly affect the switching overvoltages. This section
2 Effect of Arresters on Switching considers the UHV arresters used in China (#1), UHV
Overvoltages arresters with the residual voltage decreased by 5% or
10% (#2 and #3), and controllable arresters (#4)[8]. I-V
Many researchers have pointed out that arresters characteristics of these arresters are shown in Fig. 1.
YANG Pengcheng () et al.Effect of Different Arresters on Switching Overvoltages in UHV 327
greatly reduce the overvoltages. transmission line. Power System Technology, 2005, 29(21):
(3) If better capability arrestors are used, the 10-13. (in Chinese)
switching overvoltages can be reduced to less than [6] Du Xinhui, Song Jiancheng, Dai Yunhang, et al. Research
1.55 p.u. on the unload lines switching overvoltage and clearing
(4) Without parallel resistors, the better arrestors can short-circuit faults transfer overvoltage of 1000 kV
reduce three-phase energizing overvoltages to 1.55 p.u, Jin-Nan-Jing transmission line. Proceedings of the CSEE,
but these arresters have little effect on reducing the 2007, 27(6): 6-11. (in Chinese)
single-phase reclosing overvoltages. [7] Sun Caixin, Sima Wenxia, Zhao Jie, et al. Overvoltage in
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